Opinion: Affirmative Action for Conservatives

Political Diary editor Jason Riley on the University of Colorado, Boulder's visiting scholar program for conservative academics. Photos: University of Colorado

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... action program for conservative college professors so on Jason Riley ... political diary editor with the blood other kinds of affirmative action progresses ... a basic background the University of Colorado Boulder ... setting up a of a scholar of conservative thought essentially a nadir may have no time out to ... I get so searching the country is you can really find a lot of conservatives in Boulder Colorado I gather to a defined the ideal person to fill the slot ... is this so ... is this progress idea against their will be at least one conservative The drew the ire of them ... well ... Jim fingertip to give the college credit for at least acknowledge and slow upward tell where they are a lot more than ... a good university or are willing to do but ... I'm I'm not sure this is what conservatives should be pushing for ... exactly I mean ... I don't know that we need more conservatives on campus so much is we need ... more professors to keep their politics out of the plaster ... remain let's remember kids go to college ... to learn how to think for themselves rigorously ... defend arguments ... on ... this um make clear that as of the statements on issues and events and can talk less about their feelings and so far I ... and and and that's what I think ... conservative should be pushing for on campus I'm ... not trying to counterbalance the out ... any logical back to the faculty ... yes I mean there's ... as far as I know they don't have a liberal professor they ... have ... in all kinds Department C M the economist the conservative economist Council tells of a great story about them ... his days teaching Marxism ... aam which is one of the things he aam ... PPP tightened the economics department the various schools ... three thousand in one semester group of students came up to him and said ... um process all we really enjoyed the class but we still have no idea what you really think about crawl marks ... he says the he considered the highest compliment in the world Yemin's most kids and I think ... that we should put running ... unless we're talking about a conservative aam ... of teaching staff that wants to return the sort of the pre nineteen sixty is ... a political campus and fire it yet remember that ... this idea of college is a hotbed of protest and ... taking on them and and and and and and you know acting out is really a product of the late sixties ... there was a time when on the was a much more traditional place to be an silks to the extent that we want conservatives on campus ... maybe lot more people willing to take us back to those pre nineteen sixties ... visible from a local college ... yet we would dive clearly that would be preferable but dying given that the of this program seems to be going forward ... eventually I floated a bunch of names of nature of the school as are these names that come out that Linda Chavez run as gains Steve Hayward out ... if you had to pick one ... you wanna install all ... I'd you know I'm they've all been sources them on an issue that of renown over the years I have opened so there ... the event and they are wonderful on aam and and the political political aisle ... they aren't especially part is that right I should say I'm so kids might be surprise that they're they're they're pretty as independent thinkers ... Jerry I'm ... guessing you did a pretty interesting course of any of these folks but to ... be ideally you would just hire the rest of the faculty without